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Sign in to saveCelestia is a real-time 3D astronomy software program that was created in 2001 by Chris Laurel. The program allows users to virtually travel through the universe and explore celestial objects that have been catalogued. Celestia also doubles as a planetarium, but the user is not restricted to the Earth's surface, like in other planetarium software such as Stellarium. Celestia can display objects of various scales using OpenGL.
Key facts
- Software.name
- Celestia
- Software.logo
- Celestia.png
- Software.screenshot
- Jupiter, Io, and Europa.png
- Software.caption
- Europa, Io, and Jupiter in Celestia
- Software.author
- Chris Laurel
- Software.developer
- Celestia Development Team
- Software.latest release version
- 1.6.4
- Software.programming language
- C++
- Software.operating system
- AmigaOS 4, BSD, Linux, macOS, Microsoft Windows, iOS, Android, FreeBSD
- Software.size
- Linux: 27.7 MBAmigaOS 4: 44.4 MBmacOS: 38.7 MBWindows: 32.8 MBFreeBSD: 65.7 MBSource code: 52.6 MB
- Software.language count
- 31
- Software.genre
- Educational software
- Software.license
- GPLv2
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Wikidata facts
- Official website
- celestia.space
- Image
- Celestia Europe Io Jupiter.jpg
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- Commons category
- Celestia
- Commons gallery
- Celestia
- software version identifier
- 1.6.4
- source code repository URL
- github.com/CelestiaProject/Celestia
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- See also
- Notes
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Celestia is a real-time 3D astronomy software program that was created in 2001 by Chris Laurel. The program allows users to virtually travel through the universe and explore celestial objects that have been catalogued. Celestia also doubles as a planetarium, but the user is not restricted to the Earth's surface, like in other planetarium software such as Stellarium. Celestia can display objects of various scales using OpenGL.
Celestia is available for AmigaOS 4, Linux, macOS, Microsoft Windows, Xbox, iOS, VisionOS, and Android. Celestia is also available on FreeBSD as both a binary package and a port. It is free and open source software released under the GNU General Public License.